Functional status of the regenerated chorda tympani nerve as assessed in a salt taste discrimination task

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 278, Issue 3 47-3, 2000, Pages

  Kopka, Stacy L ^a   Geran, Laura C ^a   Spector, Alan C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Univ of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amiloride; Animal psychophysics; Functional recovery; Potassium chloride; Sodium chloride

Indexed keywords

AMILORIDE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORDA TYMPANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0034059293     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.2000.278.3.r720     Document Type: Article

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